Software Development Snr Manager

Join the Team Powering the World's Biggest Enterprises on Oracle Cloud!

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) FastConnect is a mission-critical, cloud-native service that enables enterprises to establish ultra-high-speed (up to 400Gbps), low-latency, and dedicated connectivity to Oracle Cloud—whether from their on-premises networks or through FastConnect industry partners. The world's largest and most demanding enterprises rely on FastConnect to seamlessly accelerate their workloads, leverage OCI applications and databases, and create hybrid cloud architectures that span multiple clouds and global regions.

At the heart of this innovation, the FastConnect Control Plane organization delivers cloud-scale, geo-distributed, web services that transform customer intent into powerful, large-scale networking configurations. Our intelligent orchestration platform automates and expands FastConnect’s global capacity footprint, enabling multi-cloud applications, cross-region connectivity, and seamless hybrid cloud experiences.

If you are passionate about building high-impact, resilient, and intelligent networking systems that empower OCI’s biggest customers, this is your opportunity to make a global difference. Join us and be part of the team redefining enterprise connectivity at scale!

Hence the role of a Software Development Manager is business critical to the organization for delivering on the high availability and cutting-edge features promise. They are the front-line managers who lead and shepherd the team to achieve their goals with high efficiency and ZERO impact to the customers. The direction and culture of the team is also driven by them. This is a great opportunity for you if you are interested in solving complex problems and making a significant impact on the quality of cloud technologies and customer experience on a daily basis.

As a Sr Software Development Manager you will be required to fulfill the following job responsibilities:

Lead a team that builds new features, enhancements and bug fixes for the service - obtain results through the people you lead

Influence and review design decisions, project planning, release planning, delivery and operational excellence of all changes going to production environments

Manage costs, optimize resources and lead process improvements - build economically viable, fiscally competitive and streamlined teams to achieve the goals for their team and the organization

Help maintain and improve the build and test systems including systems for performance and scalability testing.

Clearly communicate the business rationale for any change and gain support of employees - align roles, systems and processes with the direction of the change in order to benefit from it

Work with internal and external teams to unblock development and meet committed release dates.

Manage our on-call rotation and help the team to resolve complex distributed network issues through debugging, communication and collaboration with multiple teams across OCI

Help handle escalations and serve as a bridge between the Development and SRE teams.

Participate & drive in roadmap planning, talent review and goal setting

Have good hiring skills and build a strong self-managed team

Role model OCI values

Basic Qualifications:

Bachelors/ Masters in Computer Science and Engineering or related engineering fields

3+ years of experience in a combination of technical lead and engineering management positions in networking/cloud product development

3+ years of experience with networking/distributed development

Proficient with Linux based OS

Experience with Agile, JIRA & Confluence and proven experience of managing large projects with multiple downstream dependencies

Experience working with customers for new feature requirements and resolving reported issues

Experience with cloud topologies and technologies

Experience with CICD & Ops

Preferred Qualifications:

Prior cloud experiences a big plus

5+ years of technical and people management experience in networking/cloud product development

10+ years of experience with applications development

Masters / PhD degree in Computer Science or related engineering fields

As a manager of the software engineering division, you will apply your knowledge of software architecture to manage software development tasks associated with developing, debugging or designing software applications, operating systems and databases according to provided design specifications. Build enhancements within an existing software architecture and suggest improvements to the architecture.